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LEE T. BYRD

            Cadet Lee T. Byrd shipped aboard the SS Harry Luckenbach from New York to England as a deck cadet where he learned under Master Ralph McKinnon.  On March 17, 1943 off the coast of Greenland, German Sub U-91 fired to torpedoes at the convoy in which the Harry Luckenbach was traveling in and sunk her in four minutes.  All hands were lost when she sunk.